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      Extraordinary Poxvers in Mentat , Arusbkhc . —At the examination of Mr . Currie ' s school , in Georgestreet , Edinburgh , on the 9 th inst ., Mr . Currie called up a girl named Margaret Brown Clelland , and put the following questions , which were answered by her without 4 > he use of the slate in the remarkably short time specified after each question : —Queen Victoria ascended the throne on the fcOth of July , 1837 ; this is the 9 th " of Julv , 1857 : how many seconds has she reigned?—Answered in sixty-three seconds , 632 , 780 , 160 . The distance between Edinburgh and London by the road is 4 ' 00 £ miles ; how many inches is that?—Answered in forty-one seconds , 25 , 375 , 680 . Hovr many are 13 times in

      IS times 13 times 13 ?^—Answered twenty-eight seconds , 2 S , 561 . "What is the square of -017 ?—Answered m eleven seconds , * 00289 . What is the square root of 2 0 , 73 ' 6 ?—Answered in nine seconds , 144 . Add 1-2 , 1-4 , 1-7 , 1-14 , 1-22 ? - ~* Answered in twenty-three seconds , 1 . The reservoir on the Castle-hill is 100 feet long , 100 feet broad , and 34 feet deep ; how many gallons of water will it contain ?—Answered in forty-nine seconds , 2 , 125 v © 00 . ( The pupil w-as previously informed by Mr . Currie that there were about 6 £ gallons to the cubic foot . ) What is the difference between 89 times 89 and 99 times 99 ?—Answered in seventeen seconds , 1880 . How many are 101 times 101 times 101 f—Answered in seven seconds , 10 , 201 . —^ Scottish Press .

      Feres . —A very -destructive fire broke out at the Lambeth workhouse , about eight o'clock on the evening of Friday weefe . The flames were first discovered in the sick ward , < all the inmates of which were immediately removed by the officers of the establishment to other parts of the building where there was less danger . Shortly afterwards the roof of the ward fell in . The cause of the disaster is unknown . —A fire occurred last Sunday-morning on the premises of Messrs . Hearon , M'Culloch , and Co ., wholesale chemists and druggists , Bishopsgate-street Within . The conflagration was

      occasioned by the sari ' s rays 'being concentrated on some globular bottles filled with oastor oil -which were plaoed on the leads on the top < of the house . The whole building was shortly after in flames . —Various other fires broke out the same iiay in different parts of the metropolis , the Tnost 'extensive of xvihicti -was on the promises of an umbrella-maker living in Beth » al- < green . —A fire , leadipg to loss of life , broke out on Monday morning in the bouse No . 14 , High Hplborn . The dwelling was full of people , Tffho were rescued with great difficulty , with the exception of an elderly man , who was burnt to death . An apprentice was also much injured by fflre .

      ROTAL DlSFENSART FOB DISEASES OP THE HAK , Dean-street , Soho-sqxtare . —An eloquent sermon was preached on Sunday an aid of the funds of this institution by the Rev . Dr . Croly . The text taken for iUhe occasion was from the 7 th chapter of St . Luke , v . -22 , wWcjh forcibly illustrates the benevolent disposition of our Lord in tine healing and -curing of disease . Tho Hcv . Doctor , in skis adoairable discourse , showed that tho charitable institutions which exist in this country for dia-i ease were wanting both to the Jews and the-heathens , and . that St was left to Christianity to found thoso hospitals and 'djbapensjuies which so beautifully inculcate to us all tho doctrine of charity , tho . groat foamclation-stono of her system . A liberal collection was made for the funds of tMs charity at tho conclusion of tho sormon .

      ( The iatoRW ^ ERSiAw Boundary Question . —Letters from members >« f the . commission liave Sheen received to as lute a date as the close < afi < Tune , . announcing not-only ¦ t / ho Tecoiqmencenaentlay the now commissioners of tho ! labowro at the , point ; "where tho former commissioners loft off on the breaking 1 loot of the late war , but likowiaefhat the utmost cordiality prevails ; Indeed , it was confidently ' anticipated that everything will bo got through by tho close df tho present year . Tho Times Jassy correspondent , however , speaks of great difference of views . Austbai . ia .---. TIio O' ^ hanasay •^ Government at Melbourne being ousted by a vote of want of aonfldomco , a new ministry has boon formed , whioh ia thua composed : —Mr . Hainos , Chief Secretary } " Mr . BT'Callooh , Commissioner of Trade « nd OatStomaj Mr . flEbdon , Troaswrer ; Mr . Michie , Attornoy-Qenoral } Mr . Moore . President of tho Board of Laud and Works \ »» 4 Mr . follows , SoJU- j oitor-Qenor « l .

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      beyond the simple re-election , and passed a resolution , urging upon Government more strenuous and summary measures to accomplish the object of Lord PAtMEKSTON ' s bill . Not very many hours afterwards , this significant event was followed Jby a declaration on the part of Lord John RdwsEix , that he should postpone ^ « pn bill n ^ -W « elc , anticipating that , possibly i » fthe interval ,. > fyp Baron would be admitted intone House by sojaae newly-contrived process . An ^ . ct of Parliapppt has been discovered ^ hich' «^ ibrizes an y 1 $ buiial

      to arrange the oaths administered to every person who is to be sworn before it ; and under that Act the House of Commons is to be invited to take upon itself to arrange how the Baron Lionel de R 05 HSCHHD shall take the oatts at the table . Lord John , therefore , joias those who are piwoe « d « g in the course first definitively suggested by Mr . Diiavyn . The Independent party , which was so strongly represented at the Palace-yard meetings , has concentrated its strength upon a course not less direct than Mr . Dilwi'n ' s , but authorized by existing

      i ^ islation . Some , other purely Parliamentary matters have also been discussed . Mr . Osborne has given his support to the Election Petitions Bill in a manner that has drawn very great attention . During tlie present session a large number of petitions against returns have been presented , to a certain extent Acted upon , and then "withdrawal . Tite mimber , vre ^ believe , exceeds a score . The Resentment of a j » etiti . o-n has become a means of screwing candidates , either to pay money in ike form of *

      expenses , ' including even the expenses of opponents ^ Or to make bargains , for tire retention of one seat ¦ and the preservation of another . Mr . Oseorne stated three bargains which had been attempted i . ' wath his colieagnie in the representation of Dover ; &nd he called upon , the House to pass a bill intended to prevent the withdrawal of petitions except by leave of the House . Mr . Osborne is a member of the Government ; the Government , as 'Represented by Sir Geoibge Gk . ey , did not go "With . Mm on tins occasion , but rather -obstructed the

      passage of the bill through the committee . Two other decisions have , however , been sup-. ported by the Premier—the writs for Mayo and Galway have . been . suspended , while aia inquiry is # o issue into the abuses of Galway , and the turfeu Jent priests who exercised c spiritual iBjtnmaidation . ' in Mayo are to be ' prosecuted . Here is « . grand example of Parlianieaatary indepesulenoe , —in places , . however , which will . not occasion any serious iaooavenien . ee to Government men .

      . The report of the Xarmou&h . Committee toas de-* prived the House of Commons of a useful maaaa , who ( belonged more to tlie Independent than to the Ministerial party—Mr . Torrens M'Cullagh . "The -system' haa tainted his election with illicit praovtnoes , and' he is idepriv ^ wl of his seat because ot the . intolerable alwases > wMcih Ixave crept into the trade i , of the election agents . . "' Sir De Lacy Evans has done good servioe to th , ej state by pressing las resolution on couapeiilive ex .-wmiamtiow as the means of entering the military . rservioo . He bad , indeed , postponed his motion . >» everal tinacs , and had naatenally ^ Itepcrd its terms ,

      m . order to compel , acq . wiesce > w 30 by presentiiaig IM lowest number or debatable points . J \ Iiaaisters sno > him cjinningly—rofFering to conoede anud !* , « nd ndvaitcing a sKratch of the improved plan that they intend . Candidates for first commissions are to ; jpndergo a keen rexawpination 'toy independent ox-Ainmera , but . tlie exaaunatioa ie jaut to m 'competitive . It will bo so for the entrance iiuto the staff . "Woolwich and Sandhurst will bo fused in one college , nnd rendered more perfeot ; and tho

      student will too allowed to enter tho Line or the jSoiontiua Corps without purchase . Ai-e com-, missions still to be sold to rich noodles , under | he hoUef , that the purchasers will gradually be -iahathed . jnto- ^ ompotiuon Avith thp non-purchasing , oHoers , f ; ojp iwthe systorn of pwoliaso to be gradually superseded ! P' ~ "Whatever may bo designed at present , ^ ir . DJiJ Laoy Evaw s further cut -down his xes ' olution into « virtual approbatioix t ) f tbe pkn , fi ^ lcl ^ tpasBcd , without division , ¦ ;„ " . ' .. ^ v " - / < . ;¦ . . < . \ . ¦ ¦ ¦

      Already there has been , to a certain extent , a ' massaee& . of the hmpceiats . ' The bill for remodelling the Bflfcrd * £ fieaMi , as a committee of the Privy Council , ns « j / been cut down to a simple continuance JWU—the whole question of the Board being deferred till next year . Lord Naas has carriadfcMs bill for the discontinuance o £ * lptements in Qicinvil ^ eyvice ; aitejty simple an d'iBWJerfatjt way of r ^ BedyiogHthe griev « wbe . « jiaer which tJbe ^ i * il servantSlabour * iNow , eitfey the measure wiU'fjeoninate in ibat impsatfect refonn , or the subject willlbe deferr ^ tiil ^ att year . ' " ^ E he obstructiveSsOtMilfcinue to struggfe ^ tgainst the . Divorce Bill , the last debate being left , with the exception of one speech from the Attorney-General , entirely with _ those who oOHtimie to 1-epes . t the- same incessant * circle of hostile arguments . ¥ e are , indeed , not likely to get much more good out of the House of Commons daring the present session .

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      Monday , July 27 th . Ixr . ttbe H < M 7 SB of Lords , the Royal Assent was g iven by Commission to several bills . BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE . LordXJERBY again called the attention of the House to the iflwolate necessity which existed for fixing some day _ -a ! £ fc « r which no new bill , except it were one of pressing Impaitance , should be read a second time . —Some little «< Kscossi < m ensued , when it was agreed that after Augttst the 7 th . no bill , except it be of the nature indicated , should be read a second time .

      . The Marqtiis of Clanricarde moved for copies of the correspondence of the Court of Directors with the Board of Control , and with the Governor-General of India , relating to the amount of European forces , either of the British or the Indian army , to be maintained in that Country since the 1 st of Aptil , 1856 , or relating to the ¦ employment of military officers upon political or other services . He commented upon the mismanagement that has characterized the Government of India by the East India Company , as exhibited among other things , by the recent insurrection . This disaster he attributed partly to the annexation of the kingdom of Oude , there being many Ondeans in oar native army . The Government of India should be completely altered . India

      belongs to the English Crown , and the Government should be administered by -a Minister of the Crown , responsible to Parliament . He trusted that Ministers would meet Parliament next session -with a plan prepared for the purpose . —The Duke of Abgyjje said that < tfae despatches relative to the native and European foTces in India had been presented to the other House , and would be communicated to their Lordships ; and , so far-, tlie object of his noble friend ' s motion would be attained . It would be impolitic , however , to enter into the abstract questions raised by the noble Marquis . The Government would spare no exertions to put down the Sepoy revolt , and to preserve our Indian Empire , the abandonment of which would not only be a scandal to England , but a calamity to mankind . —The motion w-asagroed to .

      The Registration op LoNff Leases ( Scotlasd ) Brx-r ,, tmd the Inclosuee A . ct Amendment Bell , were read a third time , and passed . The House adjourned about half-past / seven o ' clock .

      AFRICAN SL . AVE TRAJMS . In the House of Commons , Loxd Casxlerosse brought up the answer of lier Majesty to an address of tbe House . The answer was "to the following effect : — " I -have received your dutiful address , praySqg that I will employ every means in , my power in order to put down the African slave trade . You may rely upon my earnest endeavours to give 11111 effect to your wishes on this important . sufcject . "

      ELECTION . JPETETKaffir . The Speaker read -a communication . from the agents of the petitioners who complained of the return for Ports-TOontb , stating that it was not their intention to proceed with that petition .

      THE IONIAN ZSfcANBS . In reply to a question by ; Sir Db LiA . cs- Evans , Blr . Labouciiere said he had received no official information upon the subject alluded to , but ne bad learnt from private Letters that intemperate language had been used , ¦ and great excitement exhitn&ed , in the Assembly of the Ionian Islands . However , no formal resolution had been come to that would justify the extreme measure of prorogation . He believed 1 he origin of these scenes was on impression arising from the presentation df a petition to that House from Mr . Montgomery Marian , praying that tho Ionian Islands might bo made still more . an English colony by having a representative in tho English Legislature . This bad led to a fear that some such steps iwonld really be taken .

      The Grand Juries ( Metropolitan : PoLron District ) Bilt . was withdrawn by Sir Frkdkiuck T / iesimm , its promoter , who said Tie had sought in vain for an opportunity for proceeding with it . J \ IK . DISRAELI ' S rNDIAN SIOTION . Mr . Dxskaeli , pursuant to notice , called the attention of the House to tho state of affairs in India . Tho intelligence of the mutiny among tho native troops liod come upon the public with great suddenness , but they had been assured by tho Chancellor of tho Uxchoquor , on behalf of tho Cabinet , that tho revolt was a temporary impulse occasionedT > y a superstitious fooling . It had boon Jtnrown for some time past , owing to tho flory criticisms reflections

      of the iato Sir Charles Napier , . « md * too calmer of Lord Melville , that tho state of the Bongal army had boon -unsatisfactory ; but the public was not prepared fo ' bo wide and general an outbreak . Tho causos -wlndi Imu lod to the present state of thinga were , In his opinion , three in number . Firstly , the forcible destruction of nativo authority in India by our Government ; secondly ? tho disturbance . of tho sottlemont of property ; thirdly , tampering with tthe ( religion of tho people . As to tho flrijt point , there aro , even -at rtho present day , two hundred Indian princes ruling ever sixty millions of people j and thoflo prinooa have ontosod into troatioo with Engli " ivhioh provide that , unices tho nativo prlncoe violato any oonditlona , England will secure to them and to thq'r heira for over the tbromos -on -which they reigu . l » 0

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      722 THE LEADER . [ JSTo . 384 , August 1 , 1857 ^

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 1, 1857, page 722, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2203/page/2/